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The one and only big fat thread about GUNS.

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He's a kid, kids do that stuff. I understand people are terrified about the shooting that happened but this is over reacting. Are they gonna start suspending every little kid that plays cops and robbers now?
 

Gideon Jeremiah

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While recent tragic events may have worried people, this is still an over-reaction.
Though it is hampered by said events.
 

Sydian

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Definitely an overreaction. I know some of us are still a bit sensitive about the Sandy Hook shooting, but I don't think a suspension was warranted. It's not polite to do that sort of thing, so I would have just explained to the child why it's wrong and gotten them to pull their card (it's a small disciplinary action for those that don't know, definitely not as severe as suspension). But yeah, they definitely overreacted at this. Plus, you have to consider that not all children know about the incident. While some parents explained it to their children, some didn't want their children to know or worry about it, so I'm guessing he's in the latter group, and even if not, this was still taken too far.
 

Alexander Nicholi

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This kind of nonsense is what makes me wonder, what has happened to humanity? Every time an overreacted-to incident goes national like this, I imagine a wealthy lady in the Victorian age going "Oh my," and waving her feathered fan in her face. That's how preposterous this is, no pun intended.
 

Sir Codin

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This kind of nonsense is what makes me wonder, what has happened to humanity? Every time an overreacted-to incident goes national like this, I imagine a wealthy lady in the Victorian age going "Oh my," and waving her feathered fan in her face. That's how preposterous this is, no pun intended.
Humanity has always done stupid things like this, even stupider things.

Don't let it get you down too much.

Here, all of you have a healthy dosage of good news for a change:

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
 

Frostweaver

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This kind of nonsense is what makes me wonder, what has happened to humanity? Every time an overreacted-to incident goes national like this, I imagine a wealthy lady in the Victorian age going "Oh my," and waving her feathered fan in her face. That's how preposterous this is, no pun intended.

Political correctness took over, pretty much. I quit at public school teaching after I got my license pretty much because we are essentially restricted from teaching properly to follow politically correct guidelines, and that the general leading trend and "full fledged new education research" is taking a sharp turn for a path that I strongly disagree with.

While the teacher should do something about the child and address when is a gesture like that just taken as fun and when is it inappropriate to do that, there's really no need to suspend the child over it =/
 

Sableye~

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They overreacted, in my opinion. They at least could have just told his parents so they would tell him to knock it off before suspending him. Unless his parents explain it, does the kid even know what he did to be in trouble? I:
 

Keiran

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I'm sure if the student he "pow'd" was a child of color he would be celebrated as a national hero and the manliest American.
 

Urugamosu

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I understand that they overreacted because of the shootings on Connecticut, and everybody is up in arms on the gun subject. But they really shouldn't have done that, especially of a child at that age. Children are now going to think of him as the bad buy, and give him a unnecessary image that he really doesn't deserve.
 
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In the school I work at, we discourage games with guns, and discourage them making guns out of lego and the like, but we'd never suspend a child doing something as unmalicious as this...
 

Kloun

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They are seriously overreacting. I don't even see how making that gesture is any way related to the Sandy Hook shooting, other than the fact that guns were involved in the shooting. Kids do that kind of thing all the time. When I was in school and kids did that, teachers didn't even bat an eye. It is quite frankly ridiculous. The most a kid should get from doing that is time out, and even that is pushing it a little. Next thing you know a kid is going to get expelled by chaining markers together and pretending it's a lightsaber.
 

Nihilego

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So somewhere between childhood and adulthood you go from being unable to gesture a gun to being able to own and be trained in the use of a gun. Well ok, then! This seems utterly ridiculous to me. Kids just mimic what they see and a six-year-old in any country that's never seen or heard of guns is a rare find indeed. At the nursery school my mum used to work at (in England, if anyone's wondering - this was unrelated to seeing guns in real use) kids had a tendency to do stuff like build guns out of lego or whatever and all they were told is that "we don't like guns here" lol. Fair play, this kid was a bit older, but probably still didn't understand what they were doing wrong and had likely not even heard of the event which undoubtedly brought this about. All they needed was telling that the gesture was inappropriate. *shrug*
 
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Reaction to this news: This is where society's going. This is why I'm campaigning for a colony on Mars. I'm one of those kids who, relatively recently, was just chatting with my friend about what the stupidest possible place would be to put a bomb. After that was the first time my friend and I heard about how idiotic most of society is. I really should thank the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen, that I didn't get suspended or at least expelled.

Reaction to reactions: (YES! I'm NOT the last anti-socialist on the internet!)
 

Mr. X

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CEO threatens to kill people over new gun control legislation.

One CEO says he's willing to go to outrageous lengths to protect his right to use a gun.

James Yeager, CEO of Tactical Response, a Tennessee company that trains people in weapon and tactical skills, claimed in a video posted on YouTube and Facebook that he would "start killing people" if President Barack Obama decides to take executive action to pass further gun control policies, Raw Story reports.

In a frenetic address to the camera, Yeager puts a call out to other gun rights advocates to "load your damn mags" and "get ready to fight" in what he claims will turn into a "civil war" if gun control measures in the country get any stricter.

SEE FULL VIDEO BELOW -- WARNING ADULT LANGUAGE

Yeager's diatribe was a response to a recent statement from Vice President Joe Biden indicating that Obama was exploring using executive orders to address gun policy. Yeager accused Obama of being a "dictator" for considering taking action without Congress.

After the massacre in Newtown, Conn. last month, Obama instituted a task force lead by Biden to come up with policy proposals to deal with gun violence no later than this month.

The Washington Post reported that the White House is considering more expansive measures to tackle gun violence than simply reinstating a ban on assault weapons and large magazines. Biden's working group will consider initiatives such as a national database to track sale and movement of weapons and universal background checks for gun buyers.


Yeager isn't the first gun advocate to loudly voice his opinion about potential action on Capitol Hill. On Monday, Radio Host Alex Jones went on a scathing pro-gun tirade on "Piers Morgan Tonight" claiming that, "1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms! Doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there on the street, begging for 'em to have their guns taken. We will not relinquish them. Do you understand?!"

Yeager recently edited the video he put up on YouTube to not include his threat to "start killing people." The original video was preserved by Raw Story and can be seen below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...illing-people-obama-gun-policy_n_2448751.html

It's a very bad jump in logic to go from 'Defending my Rights' to "Killing people'.

This person is a prime example of why we need to rework current gun control laws. No sane person can say that giving guns to people who are so quick to anger and lack self control is a good idea.
 

PokéZoom

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Some people are so stupid... If you want your guns that badly, you don't threaten to randomly kill people! >_<
Hell, this is like... Proving America needs gun control.
 

Pinkie-Dawn

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This Yeagar guy is only making the situation for keeping guns worse. Killing people to get what you want is never the answer; constant backlash on the internet without harming anyone irl will.
 

Captain Gizmo

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Well no wonder, he's going to lose his job if they ban guns lol.
And this is exactly why guns should be banned, so stuffs like this wouldn't happen LOL.
And did the cops or anyone go to his place for threatening to kill people? ._.
 
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I would laugh at how unaware this fool is of what he's just done to hurt his own position, but I know there are hundreds, thousands, and probably millions of similar fools in America who wouldn't get the irony and who also probably have guns themselves so I'm really worried more than anything that we have such a gun problem something like this can be said in the first place.
 
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